parcel
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“That’s part and parcel of the job,” Connor says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
With its combination of celebrity ownership, rich entertainment history, and unusually large parcel of land in the Hollywood Hills, the estate represents one of the area’s rare legacy properties.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Injuries are part and parcel of elite sport, but the view that tennis is becoming increasingly punishing is supported by medical experts.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, FedEx continues to operate as a more focused parcel delivery network, similar to rival UPS UPS 2.99%increase; up pointing triangle , with its express and ground-delivery units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
“I didn’t think of giving Kreacher anything. Do people usually give their house-elves Christmas presents?” asked Harry, prodding the parcel cautiously.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
She runs an organisation supporting other women who have been detained, and, using a secret network, helps send parcels from families to those still in captivity.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
To check whether specific parcels are included in the ordinance, follow this link and check the box that says “Opportunity Station Sites Eligible for Low Rise.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
By matching permits to investor owners, The Times found that plans are on file for two-thirds of their parcels, 50% higher than the overall rate for Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Alaska chose its 1.4 million parcels that will help lock in plans for its proposed Ambler mining district and liquid natural gas projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
The woman stepped back with her parcels, a hand to her fur collar, and Zbyszek took her place at the counter.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
The acres parceled out for Stratos all lie on private, unzoned property, and the landowners there had already granted their blessing.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
Certain credits are parceled out quarterly or even monthly, and premium cards can have the feel of a coupon book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Situated on the sunny second floor, it was one of four flats parceled out in the 1950s from a 14th-century Tuscan estate, Villa di Marignolle, that once belonged to the Medicis.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
I could keep the condition in check by feeding him small meals six to eight times a day, a tablespoon of the prescription dry food parceled out one pea-sized piece at a time.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024
None of the historical residents of Epiphany liked the idea of having the Sillington place parceled off for a subdivision.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
In the run-up to “One Battle After Another,” DiCaprio played the traditional role of the elusive movie star, parceling out access and promotional appearances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
California became an agricultural powerhouse by taming its rivers and parceling out their flows.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
The insurance department, in turn, has encouraged companies to ask for all the rate increases they need at once, rather than parceling out requests over time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
But the league is also parceling off more rights and three of the next seven Stanley Cup Finals to a secondary bidder.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2021
"I'm thinking of parceling off portions of my brain," I once told her.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
The other is coming out of Glasgow, with the old Glasgow Central constituency being broken up and parcelled out among the surrounding city seats.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
Just open up a page and experience the meditative calm of reading alphabetized lists that are parcelled into neat little sections.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2020
Indeed, American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder cases.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.
From Economist ● Jul. 14, 2016
That first captain walled their promontory, built their homes and shrines, and parcelled out the black land for the plow.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Congo-Brazzaville's government has already begun parcelling out blocks of land and looking for potential investors, although there is some uncertainty about the extent and significance of the oil reserves.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2022
Given all this filtering and parcelling out, it’s not surprising that memory is imperfect.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2014
And once you begin parcelling out roles rather than wrapping them together in a single nightmare bundle, it gets rather easier to find George Entwistle's successor.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012
Popular in Czechoslovakia is the Government's policy of seizing the broad acres of great nobles and parcelling them out among the poor.
From Time Magazine Archive
It required a strict parcelling out of the interval of totality to embrace in it the entire series of observations.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
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